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On 1/20/2025 at 9:11 PM, Anastasis said:

Why atf and not just some thin synthetic?

I actually always thought that atf had more detergents than regular oil, but did some research and learned something today. It sounds like oil would be the better option.

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    So I bought this today.    Will be at the house in a week.   1974 full engine rebuilt in 2022 with upgraded bits.  

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On 1/22/2025 at 6:13 PM, Jkwellborn said:


I always heard Marvel mystery oil.

I have used Marvel M.O. for decades. My father used it before I. I swear by it. Back in the early 2000s I would babysit a 1995 Mazda MPV for my German cousins when her husband was a visiting professor up at PSU. They bought it off another professor and it was never really taken care of and had sticking and just ran like a dog with lung cancer. I used Marvel in the gas and oil and ran it one summer and when they came back for the fall it ran like a completely different car. 

I put it in 500 miles before an oil change. I use it in the gas for nice long trips. I like it a lot.

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Who’s still driving their car?  I’ve been working on reliability and performance. Got the clutch adjusted and it drives so much better. one with photos and a video driving it. 
 


 

2 hours ago, TexasEd said:

Who’s still driving their car?  I’ve been working on reliability and performance. Got the clutch adjusted and it drives so much better. one with photos and a video driving it. 
 


 

I can’t drive my oldies until the shit is off the roads. They dumped a shit ton of salt on the road last night, just for flurries. It’s almost as if they say “we have to dump the salt because we paid for it” rather than letting it stay until next year. Too much salt & cinders on the roads to take the good cars out. 

AMG wagon and Buick are both under covers and hooked up to trickle chargers. 

Haven't even opened the back garage door in over a month. Should be at least twice that except for the fact that Mrs. Doom inexplicably chose to take the garbage out through the garage instead of just using the gate to access the alley. 

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Holy shit. We have some friends, probably best friends as a couple, that moved to Oklahoma to take care of an ailing parent, and are now moving back. He is an estimator for a car dealership, his wife is a pothead, so we are looking at the shittiest little houses in Granbury. The first one, on the list, was the one his wife drove down from Oklahoma to see. We walk in and start looking around, I open the garage door and this is sitting there:

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1965, convertible, small block, numbers matching, four speed manual, factory knockoffs, and side pipes. We walk out, and this guy walks up, and he is the actual owner of the house. I told him we have to options, right now. I'll give you a full price offer, right now, if it comes with car. Or I will trade you that Lexus with only 2400 miles, straight up.....and you will get to witness the first fist fight my wife and I have ever been in.

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Same son who owns the red ‘59 Apache.

(Prom night 1990, and college dropout 1994)

 

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Driving down the access road reving our engines was the most fun I’ve had with my car since high school. I think those women wanted rides 🤣 I think they were drinking and high. The walked up to tell us that’s how an engine should sound when it was just my car running. 
 

if the old saying of Gas, grass or ass still applies I would like the gas 💰


 

 

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6 hours ago, Armybrat said:

Some assembly required……

 

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Urban legend says there are hundreds of those in some warehouse in Europe :)

Urban legend says there are hundreds of those in some warehouse in Europe [emoji4]

When that legend started there probably were.
9 hours ago, Armybrat said:

Some assembly required……

 

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I have heard the legend before.  Tell me more about this particular post.

Some assembly required……
 
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When I was stationed in Colorado (88-90), I went to a military surplus auction. They had an old jeep like this that still drove (I drove it around for about 10 minutes). No keys. Kind of like a golf cart in that you pressed a pedal and it started up. Was interested in buying it but was told that because it wasn't "street legal" they'd have to cut it in half first. That's a cut from front to back straight through the engine.

Thinking it’s close to that time. I want to grab a VW bus. I need a surf wagon here in SoCal.  Not sure the year yet. But I just want one 

6 minutes ago, Sgt Hulk said:

Thinking it’s close to that time. I want to grab a VW bus. I need a surf wagon here in SoCal.  Not sure the year yet. But I just want one 

Prepare the checkbook and then add and extra 25%. Youll wish you added another 10% but by that time it doesn't matter the %.  It's so close.  Good times! 

Getting real close to finish line.  The carpet is in. They also let me know that transmission parts finally showed up and the rebuilt transmission is perfect. We are still waiting for what is called the front cockpit rail. It runs on the top of the dash. Hopefully soon and then it is finished. The rail is backordered howsoever.  Those  seats are the ones we had made in 1980 and still look good.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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On 4/4/2025 at 6:50 PM, Sgt Hulk said:

Thinking it’s close to that time. I want to grab a VW bus. I need a surf wagon here in SoCal.  Not sure the year yet. But I just want one 

Same.  My parents had one when I was growing up.  It had to be a 78 or 79, Orange and Brown two-tone.  I keep telling my wife I am getting one before I retire. 

 

Those MGA wood floorboards bring back the memories…..one of mine caught fire in 1965. Lulz.

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They don't rust but they do rot.  My first MGA let me know that in grad school. Coming up to red light with a huge puddle of water in the lane. Leg was straight to depress clutch. Water came thru the gap and straight up the pant leg - almost to the crotch. That will wake you up in a hurry :)

This is the first really nice weekend of weather in the Chicago area, so yesterday I took the cover and battery tender off the Skylark, gave it a once-over, put the top down, and found myself a nice place to grab lunch an hour away. 

Saw far fewer people obviously out for their first nice drive in a weekend car than I expected, and far more convertibles with their tops up than I should have. If you didn't have your top down yesterday (I'm talking specifically to you, slow-driving Boxster lady) then you bought the wrong car. Considered putting this in the Trivial Annoyances thread, but figured this would better reach the appropriate audience. 

But I did see a cute young lady (think Bridget Fonda in Jackie Brown) purposefully driving a tastefully modified and well-maintained A80 Supra. The guy in the passenger seat looked like the happiest man in the world, and he probably is....

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Been enjoying the weather here. Took my son to get a Blizzard and he said, "I get to drive home, right?"


Getting ready to build my first AN Fuel line to replace the rubber line I currently have.  I've had symptoms of vapor lock with the current line that gets too much heat from the way it is routed.  I tried bending a steel line and it looked nice but just so hard to get it just right.  

I also got the correct oil pressure sender on.  Had to use an extension.  Now I have a working oil pressure gauge.

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When you cut the braided line, put tape around where you cut. You may wind up with some stuff in the line otherwise.

If you’re bending a steel line, you really need a bender to do it properly.

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1 hour ago, Jkwellborn said:

When you cut the braided line, put tape around where you cut. You may wind up with some stuff in the line otherwise.

If you’re bending a steel line, you really need a bender to do it properly.

Thanks, I did use a bender.  they looked good but I went through 4 and was still trying to get it right plus I needed different types of connectors to get inverted flares joined to AN fittings so going all in on AN for now.  Might do the hard lines again in the future but need to figure out the rough idle problem.

 

FINALLY got the truck out of the shop, and after a fully Holley swap she’s running better than ever. Hope I can focus on fun, cosmetic upgrades for a spell…

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What carb were you running before?   I couldn't tell from the previous engine pics. 

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Built and Installing the AN fuel line now. Wish me luck 

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What carb were you running before?   I couldn't tell from the previous engine pics. 

No carb - Original Sniper EFI that came with the truck and was causing all kinds of problems.
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2 hours ago, TexasEd said:

Built and Installing the AN fuel line now. Wish me luck 

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So I bumped my head on this and cut my head. Fuel is being delivered but I have a stuck float in the secondary and flooding at times. That’s the next project 

 

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Built and Installing the AN fuel line now. Wish me luck 
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Did you buy a set of AN wrenches?
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On 2/14/2025 at 9:50 AM, TexasEd said:

Who’s still driving their car?  I’ve been working on reliability and performance. Got the clutch adjusted and it drives so much better. one with photos and a video driving it. 
 


 

Just took the 911 out for its first drive of the year. Put on 175 miles. Back roads, turnpike and medium highway and more back roads. Didn’t push too much. Just wanted to get it out and let it roll a bit. Beautiful night for a drive

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1 hour ago, Jkwellborn said:


Did you buy a set of AN wrenches?

No

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Put a couple hundred miles on it yesterday.   Been daily driving it every other week since I got it sorted.   AC blows cold, blaupunkt period correct radio has Bluetooth module hidden in the dash, so streaming music works great, to the one speaker in middle of dash haha 

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On 9/27/2024 at 10:52 AM, PittsburghTiger said:

Our ‘77 would get going pretty well. It was by no means a sports car but, in a straight line it would get up and go.

I should clarify, the 69 Delta 88 would go.  The 77 would not.

1 hour ago, Mr. Drummond said:

Put a couple hundred miles on it yesterday.   Been daily driving it every other week since I got it sorted.   AC blows cold, blaupunkt period correct radio has Bluetooth module hidden in the dash, so streaming music works great, to the one speaker in middle of dash haha 

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Love the color.

18 hours ago, PittsburghTiger said:

Just took the 911 out for its first drive of the year. Put on 175 miles. Back roads, turnpike and medium highway and more back roads. Didn’t push too much. Just wanted to get it out and let it roll a bit. Beautiful night for a drive

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What is the white thingy on the windshield?

2 hours ago, Elvis said:

What is the white thingy on the windshield?

The EZ-Pass for the toll roads. It has little suction cups that lets me take it from each of the cars.

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Did a lot of work Saturday. Went and took a video after

 

 

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